Health and Wellbeing
Dorset Chamber is committed to helping businesses provide health and wellbeing support to their employees.
Health, Wellbeing & Resources
We’ve curated a range of resources and information to support your health and wellbeing. If you can’t find something that you need, please contact us.
Mental Health at Work
A great website to support you and all of your staff.
Resources, training and info – providing the tools needed to make workplace wellbeing a priority.
Mental Health Foundation
Our knowledge, informed by rigorous research and practical based study, has been pioneering change for more than 70 years and we aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo or tackle difficult or under researched issues.
Dorset Mind
Delivering 1-2-1 and Group Support including: Befriending Counselling and Mentoring. Also provides training for the workplace, including Mental Health First Aid and topics such as Mental Health Awareness, Anxiety, Stress.
BBC Health
We know we can’t solve all your troubles, but we can give you tools to help.
NHS
We have expert advice and practical tips to help you look after your mental health and wellbeing.
Samaritans
Whatever you’re going through, a Samaritan will face it with you. We’re here 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Shout
Shout 85258 is a free, confidential, 24/7 text messaging support service for anyone who is struggling to cope.
The Money Advice
Finances can have a huge impact on your mental health. But help is available through The Money Advice.
Light On
Light on is a mental wellbeing campaign brought to you by the people of Dorset for Dorset.
Step Change Debt Charity
Providing free and impartial debt advice via phone.
The team of debt experts help thousands of people every week to deal with their debt problems.
Access Dorset
Dorset Healthcare’s mental health services include Connection. A 24/7 helpline for all ages, the Retreat & Community Front Rooms where you can access virtual support.
ACAS
We work with millions of employers and employees every year to improve workplace relationships. An independent public body that receives funding from the government.
CIPD
For more than 100 years, we’ve been championing better work and working lives by setting professional standards for HR and people development, as well as driving positive change in the world of work.
Health & Safety Executive
HApproach to tackling work-related stress establishes a framework to help employers tackle work-related stress and, as a result, also reduce the incidence and negative impact of mental ill health.
GU6 Initiative
Dorset Chamber’s initiative helping to build the resilience of business leaders in what potentially has been the most challenging business climate of our time.
Dorset Chamber ‘has the backs’ of our business leaders offering personal and confidential support to employers who may be finding stress levels too much to cope with. Our GU6 Champions will be able to offer crucial peer support to fellow members, as well as signpost to further help where needed.
